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Details of SC 8/29/1443
Reference: SC 8/29/1443
Description:
Petitioners: John Assheton (Ashton), knight.
Name(s): Assheton (Ashton), John
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: John Assheton complains that John Myrfeld, Richard Ledys, and numerous other malefactors attacked his manor of Howley, in Morley in Yorkshire, and, when he surrendered himself to them, imprisoned him in Pontefract Castle, releasing him on a bond of £1000. He asks the king to ordain, by authority of parliament, that he may have as many writs as he needs to the Sheriff of Yorkshire, asking him to make proclamation in the markets of Pontefract and Wakefield, that John Myrfeld and Richard Ledys are to appear in person before the King's Bench at Westminster to answer for these crimes; with various provisions specified in the petition for particular eventualities.
Nature of endorsement: The commons have assented to this bill (on face).Let it be done as is desired (on dorse).
Places mentioned: Holley (Howley), [West Riding of] Yorkshire; Morley, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; Pontefract, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Wakefield, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Westminster.
People mentioned: John Myrfeld, esquire, late of Pontefract; Richard Ledys, gentleman, late of Pontefract.
Note: This petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament summoned at Westminster in October 1472 (12 Edward IV) and prorogued a number of times until January 1475 (Rot. Parl. vol. VI, pp.51b-52b). It is stated on p.51b that it was presented on 8 February, 12 Edward IV (1473).
Date: [1473]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 152
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. VI, Edw IV, Ric III and Hen VII, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.51b-52b (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)

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